Re: failed to send MAC_MODE command

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 18:13 +0200, Rowan Potgieter wrote:
> Can somebody please help me out here, I have no idea what this means
> and I've searched around but there doesn't seem to be much on the net.
> I'm working with a IXDP425 board, its an intel development board and
> I'm running Snapgear 3.3.0 on it.

ipw2200-ap related problem is not discussed here. You'd send the mail to
[email protected]

> I've downloaded the latest AP drivers and firmware: ipw2200-ap-0.3 and
> ipw2200-ap-fw-2.2-3
> The drivers compiled first time but when I try run them on my embedded
> system I get the following error:
> 
> # ifconfig ixp0 down
> # insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipw2200-ap/ieee80211_crypt.ko
> # insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipw2200-ap/ieee80211.ko
> # insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipw2200-ap/ipw2200.ko
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.3
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> PCI: enabling device 0000:00:02.0 (0140 -> 0142)
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ipw2200: failed to send MAC_MODE command
> ipw2200: failed to send MAC_MODE command
> ipw2200: failed to send MAC_MODE command
> ipw2200: failed to send MAC_MODE command
> ipw2200: failed to send MAC_MODE command
> ipw2200: Unable to initialize device after 5 attempts.
> ipw2200: failed to register network device
> ipw2200: probe of 0000:00:02.0 failed with error -5

I suspect it relates to the IRQ number assignment. Can you make sure it
is correct?

Thanks,
-yi

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